Apocalypse with my SSS Harem Beauties-Chapter 164: Resting Room

Silence held the chamber for several long seconds after the notification faded. Heavy breaths filled the calm air as Myles and the others simply stood where they had reappeared, their bodies still tense from the battle. No one spoke for a while. The quiet felt strange after the chaos of the arena.

Slowly, their eyes began to wander across the room.

It looked nothing like the brutal floors they had just cleared.

Smooth earthen walls curved around the chamber. Soft amber light radiated from stones embedded in the ceiling, bathing everything in a warm glow.

Several sturdy chairs and wide couches were arranged near a low table at the center of the room.

The place almost resembled a comfortable lounge carved inside the ground.

Without needing to say anything, the group moved on their own.

George reached the nearest couch first and dropped onto it heavily. The furniture creaked under his weight as he leaned back and let out a long breath.

"Damn..." he muttered.

Victor sank into one of the chairs beside him. Ethan collapsed onto another couch while carefully avoiding the wound on his back. Clara sat down more slowly, stretching her injured leg with a quiet sigh. Daniel and Samantha followed, while Kade lowered himself into a chair and rested both glowing gauntlets on his knees. His hands were damp with sweat.

Even Myles finally sat down.

The moment his body touched the chair, a deep wave of relief rolled through him. His shoulders loosened for the first time since they entered this trial dimension.

"I didn’t expect something like this," Ethan said after a moment, glancing around the chamber. "A rest room inside this dungeon, I mean."

George snorted quietly. "Yeah. I thought we’d just get thrown straight into the next floor."

Clara leaned back and closed her eyes briefly. She said, "Honestly... I thought the same."

Lilian stood nearby, watching them with faint curiosity.

"I didn’t know this place had something like this either," she said calmly.

Several heads turned toward her.

"You didn’t?" Victor asked.

Lilian shook her head. "This structure belongs to the lower sectors of my civilization. Areas like these existed far beneath anything I ever needed to understand." She paused briefly before adding, "I never bothered learning about them."

The others exchanged glances before small, bitter smiles appeared on a few faces.

Of course. For Lilian, something this incredible was just an insignificant remnant of an old system.

Myles sighed quietly and rubbed the back of his neck.

"So... what happens now?" he asked.

Lilian simply shrugged.

"I don’t know."

That answer hung in the air.

George scratched his head. "So we just... wait?"

"Probably," Daniel said.

No one argued with that.

With nothing else to do, the group slowly relaxed into the furniture. The room remained quiet again, filled only with the sound of steady breathing.

Then Clara blinked.

"...Wait."

She lifted her arm and stared at it.

The shallow cut across her forearm was closing.

Not just slowly healing like a normal wound. The torn flesh was visibly knitting itself back together under a faint amber glow that pulsed through the air.

George straightened slightly on the couch after noticing what happened to Clara.

"Hey... my shoulder too."

Ethan carefully touched the gash across his back and frowned in surprise. The burning pain had already faded. Warm energy spread through the wound like gentle heat.

"This room is healing us," Samantha said.

The room itself seemed to breathe with soft Ether.

Amber currents flowed through the walls and floor like slow-moving veins. The breath they took carried that energy into their bodies. Their injuries steadily faded, their bruises softened and their torn muscles relaxed.

Their fatigue and pain from battle before began to melt away.

A few smiles appeared around the room.

"Well," George muttered while leaning deeper into the couch, "now this is the best mechanic I’ve ever seen in this dungeon."

Victor and the others looked visibly more relaxed as the pain left his body.

Meanwhile Lilian walked slowly along the walls of the chamber.

Unlike the others, she wasn’t interested in resting. After all, she wasn’t injured at all. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

Her eyes studied the structure carefully. Her Ether senses extended outward as she examined the faint runic patterns embedded in the earthen surface of this room.

She had no real reason to investigate. But there was nothing else to do. So she might as well.

Her fingers brushed lightly over the carved lines as she read the ancient script woven into the structure.

Minutes passed in just silence. Then Lilian suddenly paused in the middle of her track.

A faint change appeared in her expression.

"...Interesting," she muttered.

Her voice made the others look toward her.

"What?" Myles asked.

Lilian slowly turned back toward them.

"This trial structure isn’t a single path."

Victor frowned. "What do you mean?"

Lilian tapped one of the faint rune lines on the wall.

"The Ether flow here branches in multiple directions. This dungeon system spreads like roots beneath the territory."

She paused for a while to let her words sink in to them, before continuing.

"There are other paths connected to this structure."

The room went into a tense quiet atmosphere again.

"You mean there will be other places like this?" Clara said slowly.

Lilian nodded. "There should be other entrances."

Several of them straightened slightly in their seats.

Myles leaned forward. "So other people could enter this trial too?"

"Possibly."

Victor crossed his arms. "That could mean that someone or... many someone, might already be inside."

Lilian gave a casual shrug. "That is very likely."

That simple answer made the atmosphere in the room grow heavier despite the warm healing effects touching their bodies.

The group exchanged silent glances. They all understood the implication immediately.

If another group entered this branching trial system, their paths would eventually intersect.

And when two groups of players met inside a dungeon like this... when they could get so many resources at once, fighting was almost certain to happen.

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